Archive for November, 2007

Displaying Amazon lists on your blog using PHP

Monday, November 26th, 2007

A common feature of blogs is the listing of albums or books that the author is currently enjoying. This article explains how to set up such a list in Amazon and show it on your blog using PHP and a REST web service.

C#’s null coalescing operator

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

I’ve been programming in C# for about five years, and today whilst reading the C# language specification v3.0, came across the null coalescing operator.
Much like T-SQL’s ISNULL function, the operator replaces null values with the specified replacement value.

Write your own Visual Studio .NET Snippets to improve your coding productivity

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Chances are that if you’ve been using Visual Studio .NET, you’ll have come across the concept of snippets – useful reusable chunks of code that are inserted after typing in a small textual identifier for that snippet. This tutorial describes Visual Studio .NET snippets and describes how you can create your own.